{"id":19097,"date":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/soteriology-006\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:17:59","slug":"soteriology-006","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/soteriology-006\/","title":{"rendered":"Soteriology 006"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[89],"series_event":[459],"sermon_service_type":[473],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-19097","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-acts","series_event-soteriology","sermon_service_type-sunday-school","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"Soteriology 006","sermon_date":"20160217","sermon_month":"2","sermon_year":"2016","sermon_notes":20079,"sermon_slides":20080,"sermon_mp3":20081,"sermon_id":"217161925132","series_or_event":459,"service_type":[473],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":89,"chapter_and_verse":"2:38","sermon_transcript":"Andy Woods\nSoteriology 06, Acts 20:38\nFebruary 17, 2016\n\nGood evening everybody. It\u2019s good to see everybody tonight. There are some handouts, they might all be gone, I don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s got the ppts. If you need a handout just put your hand up and we can get you one; it\u2019s just the slides that I\u2019m using. By the way, all the slides for this course, the doctrine of soteriology, you can find on our website along with video archives and audio archives of all these teachings. So it\u2019s there for you long after the class is over.\n\nBut this class is basically what\u2019s called soteriology, which basically means the doctrine of salvation. What does the whole Bible reveal about the subject of salvation? And we are in lesson 6 and if you haven\u2019t been here for the prior lessons that\u2019s okay, you should be able to still pick up where we left off as each of these lessons is sort of self-containing. And I want to thank Earl last week for filling in, thank you Earl. And if you\u2019re a man, so that would exclude women, unless you really want to come and then we\u2019ll let you, we\u2019re having a men\u2019s breakfast this Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m. and our speaker is going to be Doyle Davis who is a pastor in Houston, and he usually brings messages that are very politically incorrect and deal with volatile political issues. So if you\u2019re into that kind of thing we invite you to come and listen to Pastor Davis, 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning. So I\u2019m looking forward to that.\n\nHere we are in our course on the doctrine of salvation and we\u2019re in this section called God\u2019s one condition of salvation. And what we tried to communicate in that session, prior session, because I wasn\u2019t here last week, Earl taught, but the last time I taught we were in this section called God\u2019s one condition of salvation. And we basically worked through this whole idea that the Bible is very clear that salvation is conditioned upon one human response. And what\u2019s that one human response? Faith! And we saw that the Bible teaches this close to 200 times. So that was the big idea from that session.\n\nAnd now what we\u2019re moving into, and we\u2019re not going to be able to get through all of these tonight, but we\u2019re moving into passages that at first glance seem to contradict the 200 passages that teach salvation is by faith alone. So at first glance there are a handful of passages that make it look as if, at first glance, that you don\u2019t just believe in Christ to be saved, you believe in Christ plus do something else. So there are actually passages in the Bible that read this way. So what I\u2019m trying to teach you how to do is to harmonize the handful of passages with the 200 clear ones.\n\nAnd what you\u2019ll discover today in modern day evangelicalism is people, for whatever reason, they don\u2019t built their salvation message off the 200 clear ones, they always gravitate towards the remote ones. I think that\u2019s sort of a backwards way of thinking; I think we need to understand the remote ones in light of the 200 clear ones. So that\u2019s what I mean by problem passages, if that makes any sense.\n\nSo here\u2019s sort of a large outline that we\u2019re going to follow and we may not even get through the first one today because there\u2019s a lot of confusion in the body of Christ today about this. But if salvation is by faith alone, what do you do with the word repent? What do you do with people say you have to submit to Christ\u2019s Lordship to be saved? What do you do with phrases like \u201creceive Christ\u201d and \u201caccept Christ?\u201d What do you do with passages that say \u201cfaith without works is dead?\u201d What do you do with passages that make it look like you\u2019ve got to be baptized to get to heaven?\n\nThis is a controversial one, we won\u2019t be getting to this tonight, but what do you do with those passages that say you\u2019ve got to confess Christ? Because most evangelistic tracts that you see out there they say you\u2019re saved by faith, by grace, not by works. And then they give you three works to do, so they contradict themselves and so a lot of people make it sound as if you have to make some kind of public confession of Christ. You know, you have to walk an aisle. Other people say you\u2019ve got to ask Jesus into your life. Other people say you\u2019ve got to confess your sins to be a Christian. You\u2019ve got to forgive others to be a Christian. A lot of people say you\u2019ve got to sell all your possessions to be a Christian. And some people say you\u2019ve got to pray a prayer of saving faith. In other words, if you haven\u2019t prayed a prayer of saving faith then a lot of people will question whether you\u2019re a Christian at all.\n\nAnd at first glance there are passages that people use that look like they support these ideas but what I\u2019m going to try to show you in these sessions is these passages can all be harmonized if understood properly with the 200 clear ones that say you\u2019re saved by faith alone in Christ alone. So that\u2019s sort of the direction that we\u2019re moving in. So let\u2019s start with the first one, and this is a very, very controversial one; that\u2019s why I am going to go through each of these slowly. It may take me\u2026 I usually teach till 8:00 o\u2019clock which is about an hour and then we open it up for questions but it may take me the whole hour just to cover the first one.\n\nWhat do you do with the word \u201crepent?\u201d And then, as time permits, I\u2019m not sure we\u2019ll get to it, what do you do with Lordship, because you have passages where Jesus told Peter if any man wants to follow Me He must pick up his cross, deny Himself. [Matthew 16:24, \u201cThen Jesus said to His disciples, \u201cIf anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.\u201d] So he was calling Peter to submission, what do you do with passages like that. And can passages like these be harmonized with the 200 clear ones that say we\u2019re saved by faith alone in Christ alone.\n\nSo let\u2019s start with the word \u201crepent.\u201d You might take a look at Acts 2:38. Now we went through all of these passages last time we were together, or the last time I was with you, showing that salvation is by faith alone. And then all of a sudden you get to Acts 2:38 and Peter doesn\u2019t even mention faith on the day of Pentecost, when he\u2019s calling for the unsaved to be saved. Acts 2:38 says, \u201cPeter said to them, \u2018Repent,\u201d so you don\u2019t see the word \u201cfaith\u201d there at all, you see the word \u201cRepent.\u201d And there are a series of verses that say this. I have them there on the screen at the top: Acts 3:19, you\u2019ll see the word \u201crepent\u201d in the context of what the unbeliever is supposed to do. Paul, on Mars Hill in Acts 17:30 says \u201crepent.\u201d Peter, says it\u2019s God\u2019s desire for all men to come to repentance and be saved.\n\n[Acts 2:38, \u201cPeter said to them, \u2018Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.\u201d Acts 3:19, \u201cTherefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;\u201d Acts 17:30, \u201cTherefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent.\u201d]\n\nSo you know, you read these verses you say well, which is it, do we repent or do we believe? And if they are two different things, which one comes first. Do I believe first and then repent or do I repent first then believe? And so you can see how just the words that the Scripture uses bring forth a lot of confusion unless you understand these words properly.\n\nSo let\u2019s focus just for a minute on the word \u201crepent,\u201d and you\u2019ll notice there at the top I\u2019ve got a list of things of what repent means, and then towards the bottom you\u2019ll notice I\u2019ve got a couple of things repent does not mean. And half the battle is trying to figure out what this word repent means. So take, for example, the word \u201crepentance,\u201d what exactly does it mean. The Greek word \u201crepent,\u201d now these words both come from the same root, you can use the word as a noun or you can use the word as a verb. Just like the word \u201crun,\u201d I could use it as a noun, I went on a run or I could use it as a verb, I need to make a run to the store. So that\u2019s how language functions, you have words being used in the noun form and the verbal form.\n\nWell, what\u2019s the original meaning of this word \u201crepent?\u201d The Greek verb translated \u201crepent\u201d is metanoe\u014d. The Greek word repentance in the noun form translated repentance is metanoe\u014d so metanoe\u014d verb, metanoia\u2014noun. What does that word actually mean? Well, it\u2019s what you would call a compound word. A compound word is basically two words that are combined into a single word. So the word repentance is made up of two different words combined into one. The first one is meta and the second one is noe\u014d.\n\nAnd if you understand what those words mean you won\u2019t be confused about repentance because a lot of times as Christians we\u2019re throwing out the word repentance to unbelievers and they don\u2019t even know what you\u2019re talking about. To them repentance means something totally different than the way we use it many times, and because we don\u2019t take the time to explain it we end up preaching a gospel to them that\u2019s very confusing, and can actually be a works oriented gospel which God will not accept.\n\nSo meta is the first of those words; now you recognize the word meta; meta means to change. From the word meta you get all kinds of different words that you\u2019re familiar with, like metabolism, or the food has entered your mouth and stomach and it\u2019s changing, it\u2019s digesting. I think some of that is going on right now actually, actually after that fine meal we had, particularly that cheesecake, very good by the way. So metabolism\u2014change. You recognize the word metamorphosis as in change, something morphs, morph means form, changes from one form to another, like water can be changed to ice through freezing or steam through boiling it. And then this is always a scary word to get from your doctor, metastasize, that\u2019s never good when you doctor says that, that means your cancer has metastasized, it\u2019s changed from one part of your body to another. So meta just means change.\n\nNow the other compound word is noe\u014d, from which we get the word notion. Notions are ideas and where do ideas come from? They come from the mind. So noe\u014d means mind. So putting those two words together into a single word, metanoe\u014d, repentance, the only thing it really means is change of mind. So when the Bible is using the word repentance, particularly when it\u2019s being used with reference to what unbelievers are supposed to do, be right with God, the Bible is basically telling unbelievers to change their minds. That\u2019s literally what the word repentance means when you understand its etymology.\n\nAnd don\u2019t take my word for it, let me quote a few Greek lexicons. By the way, you\u2019ll notice Jim McGowan\u2019s picture up there and that\u2019s because he put together a very good power point presentation back in 2003 on the whole concept of repentance so I just went into his ppts and stole most of his slides there because he did such a good job. Why reinvent the wheel. And if you ask Jim very nicely he might send you that Power Point presentation. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m out of line by saying that but\u2026.\n\nSo this is what Dr. McGowan writes, he says: \u201cThe key question,\u201d he\u2019s talking about repentance, \u201cmust be addressed. Is the word repentance, to repent, correctly defined as a turning from sin.\u201d And see, when you toss out the word repentance to an unbeliever they don\u2019t understand anything about Greek, and when they hear the word repentance what they think it means is to become a Christian I\u2019ve got to give up a bunch of things. So they think it means don\u2019t smoke, don\u2019t chew, and don\u2019t go with girls who do kind of thing. In other words, three steps to Jesus. And if that\u2019s true that contradicts the 200 passages which reveal that salvation is by faith alone.\n\nSo he writes, \u201cA brief look at two of the most authoritative Greek resources indicate that indeed this is not the case.\u201d In other words, repentance does not mean turn from sin. And here he\u2019s quoting BAGD, those letters, BAGD, they\u2019re authors, Greek scholars, Bower, Arndt, Gingrich,\u201d no correlation to the politician, Newt Gingrich, another guy, \u201cGingrich and Danker.\u201d That\u2019s what those mean. So BAGD is just a very well accepted Greek Lexicon. So he\u2019s quoting from this lexicon. He says:\n\n\u201cA Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (BAGD) indicates that the Greek word \u201c\u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03ad\u03c9\u201d that\u2019s our word, \u201cis used to translate the English verb \u201crepent\u201d and means \u201cto change the mind.\u201d\u2019 And he gives a page number. [(see BAGD, s.v. \u201c\u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03ad\u03c9,\u201d 513.).] \u201cMoreover, this is a compound verb made up of the preposition \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1, \u201cafter\u201d, [BAGD pg. 636] and the verb, \u03bd\u03bf\u03ad\u03c9, meaning \u201cto grasp or comprehend something on the basis of careful thought, to perceive, think\u201d [BAGD pg. 674]. Thus, repentance means \u2018to perceive afterwards,\u2019 or \u2018to change the mind.\u2019\u201d [Dr. Jim McGowan \u2013 Dispensationalism and the Nature of the Church: Are Repentance and Confession \u201cRequirements\u201d for Salvation?] So I\u2019m not making things up, this is what the key lexicon of the day says about the word repentance.\n\nHere\u2019s another key lexical work, it\u2019s called the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, he\u2019s quoting from this. \u201cIn pre-biblical and extra-biblical usage \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03ad\u03c9 and \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1 are not firmly related to any specific concepts. At the first stage they bear the intellectual sense of \u2018subsequent knowledge.\u2019 With further development both verb and noun then come to mean \"change of mind.\"\u2019 Which is exactly what I\u2019ve been trying to argue. \u201c...The change of opinion or decision, the alteration in mood or feeling, which finds expression in the terms, is not in any sense ethical. It may be for the bad as well as for the good... \u201c [Dr. Jim McGowan \u2013 Dispensationalism and the Nature of the Church: Are Repentance and Confession \u201cRequirements\u201d for Salvation?] You can change your mind about something bad, change your mind about something good.\n\n\u201cFor the Greeks \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1 never,\u201d continuing with the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, \u201cFor the Greeks \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1 never suggests an alteration in the total moral attitude, a profound change in life's direction, a conversion which affects the whole content...\u201d (bold mine) \u201cThat the Greek word \u201c\u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03ad\u03c9\u201d means \u201cto change the mind\u201d is the consistent judgment of all lexicographers.\u201d [Johannes Behm and E. W\u00fcrthwein, \u201c\u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03ad\u03c9, \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1\u201d in TDNT, 4 (1967): 979. Dr. Jim McGowan \u2013 Dispensationalism and the Nature of the Church: Are Repentance and Confession \u201cRequirements\u201d for Salvation?]\n\nSo when you throw the word \u201crepentance\u201d out you have to understand the word biblically. The word simply means to change one\u2019s mind. What do you change your mind about as an unbeliever? You change your mind about whatever was inhibiting you from trusting in Christ alone. So, for example, I heard the gospel clearly when I was 16 years of age. Prior to that point in time if you asked me why I should go to heaven I always gave this pat answer: Well, I\u2019m a good person, look at all the things I\u2019ve done, look at how I went to Sunday School and I had a perfect attendance, look at how I was an acolyte, which is another way of saying an altar boy, in the Episcopalian Church. And I\u2019ve tried hard to give a good life. That was my answer.\n\nAnd then, by God\u2019s providence, I came to a Bible study when I was 16 years of age, I heard the gospel at that Bible study and I heard that salvation is a free gift based on what Jesus has done for me. And at that point I trusted in Christ and at that point I changed my mind, simultaneously. I repented, I was no longer trusting in myself, my good works, my religiosity, my mind was changed, my confidence was shifted away from myself and it was shifted exclusively to Jesus Christ.\n\nSo the unbeliever needs to change their mind about whatever it is that\u2019s inhibiting them from trusting Christ. So for the atheist they need to change their mind about the fact that there is no God, to shift their confidence in Jesus Christ as the only way of salvation. To the, going back to Acts 2:38, Peter tells this audience of Jews gathered on the day of Pentecost, to repent. What is he asking them to do? He\u2019s asking them to change their mind, and what he\u2019s saying is change your mind about who Jesus is; stop being a Christ-rejecting Jew siding with what the nation of Israel just did in rejecting Christ, and change your mind away from the message of unbelieving Israel to my message, Peter says, where Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation.\n\nSo that\u2019s what you change your mind about. And when understood in this way repentance becomes, not an antonym for faith but a synonym for faith. So now we\u2019ve got to go back into 8th grade English, we\u2019ve got to remember what a synonym is and what an antonym is. Well, an antonym is a different word, opposite meaning. And that\u2019s how your typical unbeliever looks at the word \u201crepentance\u201d when they have no training in the subject, they think I\u2019ve got to believe in Jesus but do something, don\u2019t smoke, don\u2019t chew, don\u2019t go with girls who do, give up my tattoo, I can\u2019t pierce my ears any more, pierce my nose or belly-button. And you throw that word \u201crepentance\u201d at an unbeliever and that\u2019s what they think the gospel is. And that\u2019s not the gospel; the gospel is trust in Christ alone.\n\nSo repentance, if you understand it as a change of mind is not an antonym for faith, it\u2019s a synonym for faith. What is a synonym? It\u2019s a different word, same meaning. So when you believe you automatically repent and when you repent you automatically believe. Because your mind has been changed regarding what you are trusting in. Do you see that? So that is what repentance means.\n\nAnd I like to put up these quotes because a lot of people, when I talk this way, they think I\u2019m talking foreign language and I\u2019m just making things up but I put up these quotes to show you that this is a very traditional teaching that I\u2019m giving here. Lewis Sperry Chafer, the founder of Dallas Seminary, says this: \u201c[A] serious Arminian error\u201d now don\u2019t worry about the word \u201cArminian\u201d right now, we\u2019ll be going over that later on in the course, \u201c[A] serious Arminian error respecting this doctrine occurs when repentance is added to faith or believing as a condition of salvation.\u201d Chafer says, \u201cIt is true that repentance can very well be required as a condition of salvation, but then only because the change of mind which...has been involved when turning from every other confidence to the one needful trust in Christ. Such turning about, of course, cannot be achieved without a change of mind. This vital newness of mind is a part of believing,\u201d see that, it\u2019s a synonym for believe. \u201cafter all, and therefore it may be and is used as a synonym for believing\u201d see, I\u2019ve got synonym underlined, \u201cat times\u201d and he goes through many different Scriptures that use the word repentance with respect to unbelievers and what he\u2019s saying is it\u2019s a synonym for believing. [ (cf. Acts 17:30; 20:21; 26:20; Rom. 2:4; 2Tim. 2:25; 2 Pet. 3:9).]\n\nThen he says, \u201c Repentance nevertheless cannot be added to believing as a condition of salvation, because upwards of 150 passages of Scripture condition salvation upon believing only\u201d [ (cf. John 3:16; Acts 16:31). Lewis Sperry Chafer, vol. 7, Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1993), 265-66] The moment you start to understand the word repentance as something different than faith, added to faith, that\u2019s the moment you\u2019ve taught the wrong gospel. And that\u2019s the moment you have contradicted close to 200 passages that teach the opposite.\n\nNow look at what he says here: \u201cSimilarly, the Gospel by John, which was written that men might believe and believing have life through Christ\u2019s name\u201d let me stop right there. Look, just for a minute at John 20, the Gospel of John 20:30-31. John comes out and he gives you his purpose statement in writing his gospel. And in the process he says something that no book in the New Testament says. And notice what John says, John 20, the last two verses of the chapter. He says, \u201cTherefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; [31] but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.\u201d\n\nJohn\u2019s Gospel is the only New Testament book that we have which was written to the unsaved. Romans wasn\u2019t; Romans was written to the church at Rome. Philippians wasn\u2019t, Philippians was written to the church at Philippi. And you can go right on through the other 26 New Testament books and you\u2019ll see they\u2019re all written to believers, to help them grow. John is different; John is written to the unsaved. How do I know that? Because he wants people to understand who Christ is; that means they must not know who Christ is. So John demonstrates who Christ is by a record of Christ\u2019s signs; John\u2019s Gospel highlights about seven signs. The first is changing the water to wine in John 2, the last sign would be the resuscitation of Lazarus from the dead.\n\nBut you put all those signs together, there\u2019s about seven of them, and John carefully records these signs so that the unbeliever might know who Jesus is. And after reading this record of the seven signs they would say wow, Jesus is the Christ.\n\nNow \u201cChrist\u201d is not Jesus\u2019 last name, you don\u2019t refer to Him as Mr. Christ. \u201cChrist\u201d means the messiah. So John catalogues these seven signs so that the reader, who doesn\u2019t know anything about Jesus, would conclude Jesus is the Messiah but He\u2019s also the Son of God. And then John says don\u2019t fold up your Bible and go home, this is not a theology lesson just for the sake of theology, now you as an unbeliever need to go one step further and believe in Christ, trust in Him. And when you do you\u2019ll consequently experience the gift of life. That means this book was written to people that hadn\u2019t believed in Christ yet, or this statement here makes no sense. And they had not received the gift of life yet.\n\nSo John\u2019s Gospel, you have to understand that every book of the Bible is given for a particular purpose: John is given to evangelize the lost. And the reason that\u2019s so significant is in your life as a Christian you\u2019re going to find people who are going to say to you, you know, I\u2019m not a Christian but I\u2019m interested, what book of the Bible shall I start with? Where do you send them? Leviticus? You\u2019ll kill them in Leviticus. I\u2019m not arguing that people can\u2019t get saved through Leviticus, God uses all sorts of ways to get people saved. What I\u2019m trying to say is this book is unique or special, it\u2019s designed by God for a purpose, to reach the lost. If someone asks you that question you send them to John. That\u2019s why John was set up. So John\u2019s Gospel is evangelistic, it\u2019s different than the other books of the New Testament canon.\n\nSo back to the quote: \u201cSimilarly, the Gospel by John, which was written that men might believe and by believing have life through Christ\u2019s name\u201d what\u2019s he quoting there? The purpose statement that we just read? This gospel, watch this, \u201cdoes not once use the word repentance.\u201d And I have people telling me all the time, you\u2019d better use the word \u201crepentance\u201d when you share the gospel. Well, let me ask you a question: if the word \u201crepentance\u201d is so critical as everybody makes it out to be, why is it that the only evangelistic book of the Bible that we have uses the word \u201cbelieve\u201d 99 times, but it never once uses the word \u201crepentance.\u201d I would say this, when you\u2019re interacting with an unbeliever I would focus on the word \u201cbelieve\u201d properly defined as trust.\n\nI personally, when I\u2019m with unbelievers I don\u2019t even bring up the word repentance. And the reason I don\u2019t bring it up is because I know if use the word they\u2019re going to interpret it differently. And unless I have time to explain to them what repentance is I don\u2019t even use the word. So my advice to you in your evangelism is to not even use the word \u201crepentance\u201d unless you have time to explain its meaning, metanoe\u014d as a synonym for faith. If you don\u2019t have time, because a lot of times evangelism is fast and it depends on the circumstances, there is absolutely no shame in dropping the word out entirely. If you want to bring it up, that\u2019s fine too, but make sure you explain to people what it is exactly you\u2019re talking about.\n\nSo Chafer says, \u201cSimilarly, the Gospel by John, which was written that men might believe and believing have life through Christ\u2019s name, does not once use the word repentance. In like manner, the Epistle to the Romans, written to formulate the complete statement of salvation by grace alone, does not use the term repentance\u201d now the word does show up in different places but not \u201cin relation to salvation.\u201d\n\nSo what are we trying to say, exactly? Jim McGowan writes this: \u201cIn contrast to the teachings of Lordship Theology\u201d now I\u2019ll be explaining that, not tonight but probably next week, what Lordship theology is. Lordship theology is the idea that you don\u2019t just believe in Christ to get saved; you have to submit to His Lordship to be saved. So you don\u2019t just do one thing to be saved, you do two things. And I\u2019ll try to explain to you next time why we don\u2019t feel that that is a proper understanding. There\u2019s a lot of confusion about this.\n\nBut he writes, \u201cIn contrast to the teachings of Lordship theology, that \u2018repentance and belief\u2019 are separate acts, it must be recognized that when the words \u2018believe and repent\u2019 are found together, they are never used in a manner that would suggest two separate requirements for salvation. On the contrary, when salvation from eternal condemnation is in view, repent (a change of mind) and believe are in essence used as synonyms.\u201d [Dr. Jim McGowan \u2013 Dispensationalism and the Nature of the Church: Are Repentance and Confession \u201cRequirements\u201d for Salvation?] That captures the point that we\u2019re trying to make here, regarding repentance.\n\nChafer again says, \u201c\u2026 it is as dogmatically stated as language can declare, that repentance is essential to salvation and that no one can be saved apart from repentance, but it is included in believing and cannot be separated from it.\u201d [Lewis Sperry Chafer, Vital Theological Issues, Roy B. Zuck, General Editor, Kregel, Grand Rapids, 1994, p. 1.] Why is that? Because when you\u2019re believing in the Biblical sense you\u2019re repenting because your mind is changing about who Jesus is.\n\nBack to Chafer for a minute, you\u2019re shifting in your mind (towards the end of that quote,) away \u201cfrom every other confidence\u201d that you may have had, self, denomination, whatever, and you\u2019re shifting that confidence away from those things exclusively into Christ. You are believing or trusting in Christ and consequently you are simultaneously, not separately, simultaneously repenting or changing your mind. Hopefully I\u2019m being somewhat clear.\n\nThis PowerPoint goes on and it says: \u201cA few examples where repentance is equivalent to belief in the person and work of Christ,\u201d here he uses \u201cLuke 5:32 - Jesus declares, \u2018I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.\u2019 Here repentance is evidently a synonym for faith (or salvation through faith). The whole tenor of Jesus\u2019 ministry was to call men to faith in the gospel, thus He says, \u2018Repent,\u201d Mark 1:15, \u201cand believe in the gospel.\u2019\u201d Not looking at those as separate things but simultaneous things. [Luke 5:32, \u201cI have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.\u201d Mark 1:15, \u201cand saying, \u2018The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.\u201d]\n\nTwo hundred times the Bible says \u201cbelieve.\u201d I think about 30-35 times the Bible says \u201crepent.\u201d But those are not separate actions, those are synonyms when you understand that repentance means change of mind or change of confidence. Acts 11:18, the apostle declared God has also granted to Gentiles repentance to life. It is clear from the context that repentance to life refers to Gentile\u2019s faith in Christ, because when you study some of those verses he\u2019s got there in parenthesis, Acts 10:43, Acts 11:17, what you\u2019ll see is in the surrounding context it\u2019s belief that leads to life; it\u2019s belief that leads to forgiveness of sins. [Acts 11:17, \u201cTherefore if God gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God\u2019s way?\u201d [18] \u201cWhen they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, \u2018Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life.\u201d Acts 10:43, \u201cOf Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.\u201d]\n\nAnd then this verse comes in and says it\u2019s repentance that leads to life, it\u2019s repentance that leads to forgiveness of sins. And there is no contradiction there whatsoever if you understand that sometimes the Bible uses repentance synonymously for faith. No contradiction there at all. Now if you don\u2019t understand that it looks like you\u2019ve got to do two different things; it looks like they are antonyms but they are not antonyms, these are synonyms.\n\nConsider also Acts 10:43 with Acts 11:17-18, Acts 13:38-39 with Acts 2:38, I mean, you\u2019ll see this over and over again in the Bible. Some verses say believe and be forgiven, other verses say repent and be forgiven, believe and receive the Holy Spirit, repent and receive the Holy Spirit\u2014 no contradiction whatsoever if you understand that the two words are used synonymously, different word, same meaning.\n\n[Acts 13:38-39, \u201cTherefore lit it be known to you, brethren, that through Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, [39] and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.\u201d Acts 2:38, \u201cPeter said to them, \u2018Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.\u2019\u201d]\n\nTake a look at 2 Peter 3:9, it says there, \u201cThe Lord\u2026is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.\u201d Now if you don\u2019t have any background in the word repentance you\u2019re going to think well, what does that mean? Sorrow? Emotion? No, when he says the Lord wants all to be saved and \u201ccome to repentance\u201d the only thing he\u2019s saying here is God wants the world to change its mind about Jesus and to trust in Jesus, which is a synonym for faith. These verses actually get pretty easy to understand if you have just this little tiny background under your belt. If you don\u2019t have the background under your belt you\u2019re left somewhat bewildered and confused.\nSo that is what repentance means, metanoe\u014d, meta means change, noe\u014d means mind, repentance means change of mind. You change your mind about whatever it is preventing you from trusting in Christ, and if understood that way repentance becomes a synonym for faith.\n\nNow, we went over what repentance means, someone wrote an article, I like this article, it says: We Need to Repent of How We Use Repentance, and I like that title.\n\nWhat does repentance not mean? We talked about what it means, what does it not mean. Repentance does not mean feel sorry or feel guilty. You see on TV, the Billy Graham Crusades, you\u2019ve got all these people coming forward to become Christians and the TV cameras focus on all the tears people are shedding. Some people are crying a river, they\u2019re emoting. And people see enough of that and they say wow, to become a Christian there must be some kind of emotional response on my part that I have to give to God. Well, let me ask you this: If you give to God an emotional response to be saved then your salvation is based on not just faith but a work you created. God, as we saw in our prior session together, will not accept good works. That\u2019s why the gospel has to be kept crystal clear. The moment you insert a single work in it is the moment it\u2019s no longer the gospel. That\u2019s why I\u2019m going through this very slowly and very methodically. And this is a big deal because the souls of people to a very large extent hang on how we share the gospel with them. Are we giving them God\u2019s message or a garbled and confused message.\n\nNow when you get saved is it wrong to cry? No! Cry all you want, emote, and weep and a lot of people come to Christ weeping; that\u2019s not wrong at all. But that weeping is not a requirement, see? There\u2019s only one requirement which is faith by itself.\nNow how do I know this? Because in the Greek language for emotion, such as sorrow or weeping or feelings of guilt there is a totally different word that\u2019s used. It\u2019s not metanoe\u014d, it\u2019s a totally different word, called metamelomai, metamelomai refers to emotion. You recognize the word melo? Hey buddy, you\u2019d better mellow out, in other words, you need to relax your emotions. See, we get emotionally oriented words from metamelomai and the Bible never says metanoe\u014d and metamelomai. It simply says metanoe\u014d, so if emotion were required for a lost person to be saved a totally different word would have been supplied, other than metanoe\u014d.\n\nNow let me give you some verses that show, I think pretty clearly, that repentance is not always the same thing as emotion. You know, there\u2019s a lot of criminals that are very emotional. Why are they emotional? Because they got caught, but they\u2019re not repentant. You can show a lot of emotion without ever actually changing your mind about something. So Hebrews 12:17, this deals with Jacob and Esau, remember Esau was cheated out of the birthright and then when he figured out what he lost, in the book of Genesis, he got very emotional about it. And this is what it says: \u201cFor you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected,\u201d now look at this, \u201cfor he found no place for repentance,\u201d metanoe\u014d, he was unrepentant, \u201cthough he sought for it with tears.\u201d So this guy cried, this guy emoted, and yet Hebrews 12:17 says even though he cried and remoted he was unrepentant, his mind was never changed.\n\nSo the two ideas of being emotionally upset and repenting, we conflate these ideas with English, the English language, but that\u2019s not how Greek functions. Emotion is a completely different word in the Greek language. So don\u2019t confuse repentance with emotion.\n\nRemember one of the disciples, Judas; did he feel bad about what he did? Judas sold out for thirty pieces of silver, you remember. And he felt bad about it. Matthew 27:3 says, \u201c\u201cThen when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that he had been condemned, he felt remorse\u2026\u201d now that\u2019s metamelomai, \u201cand returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.\u201d Judas cried, Judas felt bad, but did Judas ever repent? No he did not. How do I know that? I know that because of the end of John 6. John 6:64, there Jesus speaking, \u201c\u2018But there are some of you who do not believe.\u2019 For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.\u201d \u201cNow He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray Him.\u201d [John 6:71]\n\nSo this very clearly says the one that betrays Me, Judas, would never believe. Judas never believed! That\u2019s why Jesus says of Judas it would be better for him if he had never been born. [Matthew 26:24, \u201c\u2026but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.\u201d] So he was unrepentant, he never changed his mind about Christ. And yet, back to Matthew 27:3, he had a lot of metamelomai, he had a lot of emotion. So you should not confuse emotion with bona fide repentance or changing your mind about who Christ is.\n\nAnother example, take a look at Acts2:38, you might go back to Acts 2:37, Jim in his Power Point writes this: The first example of apostolic preaching of repentance is Peter\u2019s sermon recorded in Acts 2:38. That\u2019s where Peter told folks that were unbelievers to repent, change your mind about who Christ is; go from a Christ-rejecting Jew to a Christ-accepting Jew, which is a synonym for faith. [Acts 2:37, \u201cNow when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, \u2018Brethren, what shall we do?\u2019\u201d]\nThe first example of apostolic preaching of repentance is Peter\u2019s sermon recorded in Acts 2:38, there he responded to the crowd\u2019s question, \u201d\u2018What shall we do?\u201d with the word \u201crepent,\u201d and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.\u201d [Acts 2:38, \u201cPeter said to them, \"Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.\u201d]\n\nNow go back to verse 37, notice that the text, verse 37, the immediately preceding verse describes the emotional state of the people. What does that text say? It says they were \u201ccut to the heart,\u201d that\u2019s the Greek verb katanyssomai. So they heard the message, they were \u201ccut to the heart,\u201d what does that word mean? It connotes a sharp pain connected with remorse or anxiety. This is a description of their deepest, innermost feelings.\n\nSo Peter preached on the day of Pentecost and he talked about how the nation of Israel had betrayed Jesus Christ and killed innocent blood. And there were 3,000 Jews sitting there, hearing that message, and they felt really bad about it. They felt guilty. But Peter was not content to let them simply feel guilty because feeling guilty, in and of itself, doesn\u2019t save anybody. What he communicated to them is to allow that guilt, that they were experiencing to manifest itself and to propel them to changing their minds about Jesus Christ. So he went on and he actually told them to repent.\n\nPeter\u2019s admonition to repent, therefore, must certainly address another kind of response besides emotional grief. See, if emotional grief is repentance then Peter could have just left them as they were in verse 37, and dropped out what he told them to do in verse 38. Peter\u2019s admonition to repent, therefore, must certainly address another kind of response besides emotional grief. Clearly the people were compelled by feelings of remorse to seek an avenue of change and it was for this reason that Peter says \u201crepent,\u201d or in other words, change your mind and attitude about Jesus Christ.\n\nBut how were these devout Jewish men brought to this point. THIS is the crucial question. There are clues in the context about the focus of their repentance. First of all, Peter addresses the specific sin of Israel\u2019s crucifixion of the Lord Jesus. In the context, then, verse 37, reveals the source of their remorse was the mistake of crucifying the Messiah. Now they must repent or change their minds about who He is and change their disposition towards Him.\n\nCharles Talbot, a scholar, comments: \u201cThe condemnation of Christ had been done in ignorance but in raising Jesus, God showed the Jews that they had made a mistake: they had crucified the Christ\u201d. [Acts 2:36]. \u201cNow, however, the Jews are given a chance to change their minds, or to repent (2:38; 3:19; 5:31). [Charles Talbert, Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Third Gospel (New York: Crossroad Books, 1982)]\n\nIf emotion was enough Peter would have just said you guys have already repented, you feel bad. But obviously emotion is not bona fide repentance because he moved them from emotion to pushing them towards an actual change of mind. He\u2019s trying to demonstrate here that sorrow and repentance are two different things. That\u2019s my point.\n\nDwight Pentecost agrees and writes: \u201cThey had already come to regret their sin, now Peter urges them on to a change of mind about Christ. Of course, repentance to the exclusively Jewish addressees had special significance in that they had to change their attitude about their own righteousness in contrast to God's provided in the Messiah. [Pentecost, Sound Doctrine, 67-68.]\n\nNotice that the progression in Acts 2:37-38 is expressed by 2 Corinthians 7:10, \u201cFor godly sorrow produces salvation.\u201d See how sorrow and repentance are different words. I think I misspoke there, \u201cFor godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation. From their sorrow the Jews were led to the point of repentance, and being repentant they believe in Christ. [Acts 2:2:44, \u201cThey were continually devoting themselves to the apostles\u2019 teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.\u201d]. Their remorse over the sin of crucifying Christ moved them toward a true repentance which focused on their thinking about Christ. Simply put, Peter challenged these heartbroken Jews to change their minds and attitudes (repent) about Messiah, a change that if real, would then lead to their outward identification with Christ through baptism, the natural result of their new spiritual birth.\u201d\n\nSo what is the bottom line here? BLT, Bottom Line Time. Repentance means change of mind, which is synonym for faith. Repentance does not mean emotion. A repentant person many times experiences emotion but emotion in and of itself does not constitute the biblical definition of repentance. Comprehenda so far?\n\nOne more and we\u2019re done here. Repentance also does not mean turning from sin. What are we telling unbelievers? Are we telling them clean yourself up and come to Jesus? Give up sins A, B and C and come to Jesus? Is that our gospel to the unbelievers? May God help us if that\u2019s what we\u2019re preaching to them for the simple reason that we just preached works to them. And by using sloppy language they\u2019ve interpreted our message as a works-oriented message.\n\nRepentance does not mean turn from sin. The gospel is not clean yourself up and come to Christ. The gospel is come to Christ by way of faith and then guess what enters you? The Holy Spirit! And guess what He starts to work on after you\u2019re saved? Sinful tendencies, sinful problems. But you see, because we\u2019re so untaught on the subject we\u2019ve got the cart before the horse many times.\nAnd we\u2019re well intentioned but we just preached a wrong message. See?\n\nNow I\u2019m going to bring up John MacArthur, when I do this people pick up stones to stone me to death; let me say this, I like John MacArthur, we hear him on the radio and other things, he says a lot of good things, but on the doctrine of salvation we have a vast area of disagreement with him. It\u2019s not that the man hasn\u2019t done good things in other areas, but his gospel presentation and doctrine of salvation is very, very confused, and I\u2019ll be saying a lot more about that next time.\n\nJohn MacArthur writes, in his book, The Gospel According to Jesus, he says in The Gospel According to Jesus, John MacArthur initially agrees for the basic meaning of change of mind for repentance, but then later says biblically its meaning does not stop there. He\u2019s about to load up the word repentance with a bunch of other stuff. Echoing this sentiment Mark Mueller declares: repentance is far more than a change of mind about who Christ is. We would disagree with that. We think repentance is a change of mind about who Christ is, period! The basic tenant for both Reformed theologians and Lordship advocates, those terms we\u2019ll be defining later on in the course, according to this view one is saved by repenting which always means a turning from sin.\n\nKen Gentry puts it this way: The necessary element in salvatory repentance is a true recognition of one\u2019s evil state and a decided resolve to forsake sin and thrust oneself at Christ's mercy\u201d (emphasis mine). [Ken Gentry, \"The Great Option,\u201d Baptist Reformation Review 5:60.] Look at all that baggage he just dumped into the word \u201crepentance.\u201d It\u2019s not just a change of confidence as we\u2019ve tried to argue, which is a synonym for faith, it\u2019s a resolve to forsake sin and thrust one\u2019s self at Christ for mercy. It\u2019s a recognition of one\u2019s evil state.\n\nThis gentleman, Mark Mueller, goes on \u201cRepentance is related to the issue of sin, which also includes unbelief in Christ\u201d [Marc Mueller, \u201cThe Lordship Syllabus, 21] The primary New Testament word, metanoe\u014d always speaks of a change of purpose, and specifically a turning from sin.\u201d [John MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus, 178] See, I\u2019m quoting the guys we don\u2019t agree with, just to show you what\u2019s out there and what you\u2019re hearing and reading in Christian literature. John MacArthur made that statement.\n\nSome illustrative quotes from the Lordship camp. Here\u2019s A. W. Pink. Look at all the baggage he just throws into the word repentance. \u201cRepentance is a supernatural and inward revelation from God, giving a deep consciousness of what I am in His sight, which causes me to loathe and condemn myself,\u201d how do you know if you\u2019ve loathed or condemned yourself enough? How much loathing do you have to do to get saved? My goodness. \u201c\u2026which causes me to loathe and condemn myself, resulting in a bitter sorrow for sin, a holy horror and hatred for sin, and a turning away from or forsaking of sin.\u201d [A. W. Pink, The Doctrine of Salvation, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1975), 58.]\n\nI don\u2019t deny that God does this in people, but it\u2019s after the Spirit comes into them. To get the Spirit into them in the first place they have to come to Christ on Christ\u2019s terms, which is believe only. \u201cAs stated, these definitions make turning away from sin an essential and necessary component of repentance and ultimately of salvation.\u201d\n\nRichard Trench, a lot of scholarship here today, I\u2019m sorry about, I\u2019m getting very near to wrapping up by the way, if I don\u2019t wrap up fast I will repent for going to long. Richard Trench deals a fatal blow to this idea of a \u201cgreater meaning\u201d demonstrating that these added concepts have been \u201cforced upon the text.\u201d You see, what is happening is people are reading their theology into the text rather than getting their theology what? From the text. That\u2019s the basic difference here. That\u2019s why I started with what a basic lexical definition of what repentance means.\n\nSo Richard Trench says, \u201cIt is only after \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1 has been taken up into the uses of Scripture\u2026that it comes predominantly to mean a change of mind, (with the added idea of) taking a wiser view of the past, \u2026a regret for the ill done in the past, and out of all this a change of life for the better; \u2026\n\nRichard Trench says, \u201cThis,\u201d all of these meanings people are bringing to the word repentance, \u201cis all imported into, and does not etymologically nor yet by primary usage lie in, the word itself. [Richard C. Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament, pg. 242] Did you get that? This so-called \u201cgreater meaning\u201d for metanoe\u014d came into the picture only after certain theologians added to its legitimate and received definition as demonstrated by all the lexical sources we quoted a little earlier.\n\nA closing verse here, John 4, the woman at the well. Was this woman messed up, the woman at the well? What do you think? Pretty messed up; look at John 4:10, an unsaved woman, a Samaritan. \u201cJesus answered her and said, \u2018If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, \u2018Give me a drink,,\u2019 you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.\u2019\u201d Jesus tells her receive the living water that I want to give to you, which would be the Holy Spirit, by way of faith. I want you to see how morally messed up this lady was.\n\nVerse 17-19, \u201cThe woman answered and said, \u201cI have no husband.\u2019 Jesus said to her, \u2018You have correctly said, \u2018I have no husband; [18] for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you are currently with, he is not your husband; this you have said correctly.\u201d Go get your husband. I don\u2019t have a husband. Jesus said you just answered correctly because you have not one but five, and your current, for lack of a better expression, bed-buddy, you\u2019re not even married to. And then you have this tremendous statement that she makes in verse 19, \u201cSir, I perceive that You are a prophet.\u201d Good answer.\n\nWhat I\u2019m trying to say is you cannot get a more morally messed up person than the woman at the well in John 4. Look at what Charles Ryrie says in his Study Bible. Charles Ryrie, as we said in prayer time, passed away this week. He writes this: \u201cIn John 4:10 \u2013 New life through the Spirit\u2026Salvation is a gift from Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Messiah. Notice that Christ asked the woman to receive Him and His gift without any prerequisite change in her life.\u201d He never told her you need to quit sleeping around and receive the Holy Spirit You need to stop being sexually immoral and receive the Holy Spirit. What He simply said is you need water to come into you that will quench this desire that you have for meaning, that is being misdirected by you into all of these promiscuous experiences.\n\nBut if the gospel is clean yourself up and come to Jesus, if there ever was an opportunity for Jesus to preach that, this is it. You can\u2019t get a more morally confused person than this woman, but you\u2019ll notice, as Ryrie said, that Jesus asked the woman to receive Him and His gift without any prerequisite change in her life. He didn\u2019t tell her to alter her behavior at all. What he said is you need to receive Me and My resources by faith.\n\nNow guess what happens when the resources of God come into you, what happens to your behavior? It typically starts to change, some slower than others, but there\u2019s usually some kind of change that manifests itself. Ryrie says, \u201cAfter she believed, and because she believed, her way of living would be changed .\u201d And was it ever. She went out and became a tremendous evangelist for Christ when you get to the end of John 4. That\u2019s because something greater than herself entered her. Do you see that? And Jesus as He evangelizes her is not getting the cart before the horse; the change of behavior comes on the other side, once you have received the gospel by way of faith.\n\nConclusion: Is repentance a condition for receiving eternal life? Yes, if it is repentance or changing one\u2019s mind about Jesus Christ. No, if it means to be sorry for sin or to resolve to turn away from sin, for these things will not save. Conclusion: Is repentance a condition to faith? No, though a sense of sin and the desire to turn away from it may be used by the Holy Spirit to direct someone to the Savior and His salvation. Repentance may prepare the way for faith but it is faith that saves, not repentance unless repentance is understood as a synonym for faith or changing one\u2019s mind.\n\nSo hopefully I haven\u2019t confused everybody. I taught you how to harmonize repentance with faith alone. Next week we look at how to harmonize the teachings of following Christ as Lord with faith alone. 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